For those unfamiliar with it, NCIC (National Crime Information Center) is the database that's used when a LEO (for example) pulls someone over for a traffic violation. It's distributed, meaning that queries first go to the state NCIC database, and then to the national DB.
In any case Ashcroft and Zeigler announced that the scofflaws would be added to NCIC DB in December 2001, and not a word since. It would have been the first step toward allowing local law enforcement to at least participate in rounding-up the scofflaws, who've exhausted all DOJ appeals and have been ordered deported (usually criminals).
Yep, right after 9-11 it was announced that some 315K absconders were going to be *aggressively* persued & deported (per *existing* deportation orders).
LOL.....looks like the US has been soooo *aggressive* in this pursuit, that we now have some 400K absconders STILL running loose in the country.